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* [[Cooking]]
* [[Chemistry]]
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* Kitchen science
* [[Molecular gastronomy]]}}
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* [[California Institute of Technology]] (BS)
* [[Yale University]] (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = Keats and the Progress of Taste
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| thesis_year = 1978
| doctoral_advisor = [[Harold Bloom]]<ref name=phd/>
| known_for = ''[[On Food and Cooking]]''<ref name=ofac/><ref name=ibiomagazine>
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'''Harold James McGee''' (born October 3, 1951) is an American author who writes about the [[chemistry]] and history of [[food science]] and [[cooking]]. He is best known for his seminal book ''[[On Food and Cooking|On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen]]'', first published in 1984<ref name=ofac>''[[On Food and Cooking|On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen]]'' (1984) {{ISBN|0-684-18132-0}}</ref> and revised in 2004.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4242671 Food Scientist Harold McGee: 'On Food'], NPR December 2004</ref><ref>[http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3804.html Cooking with IEEE Spectrum: Harold McGee]</ref><ref name=eggwhites>{{cite journal|last1=McGee|first1=Harold J.|last2=Long|first2=Sharon R.|last3=Briggs|first3=Winslow R.|title=Why whip egg whites in copper bowls?|journal=Nature|volume=308|issue=5960|year=1984|pages=667–668|doi=10.1038/308667a0|bibcode=1984Natur.308..667M|s2cid=4372579}}</ref><ref name=curious>{{cite web |url=http://www.curiouscook.com/site/about-harold-mcgee.html |title=About Harold McGee |last1=McGee |first1=Harold |date=2015 |archive-date=
[[File:OSFC 2010 4 Tilson.JPG|thumb|Harold McGee tastes ''[[surstromming]]'' (Swedish fermented herring) at the [[Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery]]
▲[[File:OSFC 2010 4 Tilson.JPG|thumb|Harold McGee tastes ''[[surstromming]]'' (Swedish fermented herring) at the [[Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery]]. (2010)]]
== Early life==
McGee was born on 3 October 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Louise (Hanney) and Charles Gilbert McGee,<!-- www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mcgee-harold-1951 --> and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois.<!-- www.cooksinfo.com/harold-mcgee --> He was educated at the [[California Institute of Technology
==Career==
Before becoming a food science writer, McGee was a literature and writing instructor at Yale.
With [[Dave Arnold]] and [[Nils Norén]], McGee teaches a three-day class, ''The Harold McGee Lecture Series'', at
===Awards and honors===
McGee is a visiting scholar at [[Harvard University]].<ref name=ibiomagazine/>
His book ''[[On Food and Cooking]]'' has won numerous awards and is used widely in [[food science]] courses at many universities. ===Influences===
McGee's scientific approach to cooking has been embraced and popularized by chefs and authors such as [[David Chang]]
==Personal life==
McGee married his college girlfriend [[Sharon R. Long|Sharon Rugel Long]] on July 7, 1979; they divorced in 2004. They had two children, son John (born 1986) and daughter Florence (born 1988).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2004/2004_11_19.mcgee19ja.shtml |title = A chemist in the kitchen (November 19, 2004)}}</ref>
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